He suffered the injuries during the fall as he was walking out of the staff room at a secondary school in Essex.
The personal injury claim was settled outside court by council chiefs who thought they may be forced to shell out up to 500,000 pounds including legal fees if the case had gone ahead due to mounting legal fees.
The severely injured teacher was awarded 90,000 pounds for damages, but legal fees and other costs totalled 140,000 pounds.
The amount is part of more than one million pounds of payments made to injured teachers by Essex County Council in compensation over the past three years.